Nassau County Legislature passes mask ban, with exemption for health (www.newsday.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/dqKks
"The New Path for Bungie", 220 people, 17% of Bungie, laid off (www.bungie.net)
They are no longer going to be any form of independent from Sony/PlayStation anymore. The Final Shape’s sales were never going to be able to prevent this from happening, says Jeff Grubb on his morning news show (paraphrased).
Tunisia court jails potential presidential candidates and bars them from upcoming election (www.theguardian.com)
Critics say the move is aimed at targeting serious challengers to the current Tunisan president, Kais Saied....
“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal (www.propublica.org)
Until Monday, a new online portal run by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office contained what experts describe as a serious security vulnerability that would have allowed anyone to submit a voter cancellation request for any Georgian. All that was required was a name, date of birth and county of residence — information...
Blinken: Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election (www.bbc.com)
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Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)
Do you know who can help? (programming.dev)
Britain will soon lay out new plans to regulate 'buy now, pay later' firms like Klarna after delays (www.cnbc.com)
Justice Thomas failed to reveal more private flights, senator says (www.nytimes.com)
Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010....
One and done: Michael Phelps calls for a lifetime ban for anyone who's caught doping (apnews.com)
In the wake of a Chinese doping scandal, Michael Phelps doubled down Monday on his support for tougher sanctions — including a lifetime ban for anyone who tests positive for a banned substance....
oh hi mark (beehaw.org)
[alt text: two screenshots from the Sims, which appear to recreate an infamous scene from the movie “The Room”. In the first frame, a Sim that looks like Tommy Wiseau is standing in front of a rooftop entryway and looking very angry. In the second panel, the camera has panned out, and “Tommy” is looking calmly at another...
OpenAI has a 99.9% accurate ChatGPT AI text detector, but won't release it. (the-decoder.com)
An ‘olfactory masterpiece’: Dolce & Gabbana launches perfume for dogs | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Behind the scenes of the Stardew Valley concert, creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone was living his pre-game dev dream: "Music has always been my primary thing" (www.gamesradar.com)
Plop (i.imgur.com)
JD Vance reiterates false claim that Democrats "tried to kill" Trump (www.motherjones.com)
French general wants to slash ‘unbelievable’ red tape to move troops faster across Europe (www.politico.eu)
If Europe wants to deter possible Russian aggression, it has to do a much better job of moving tanks, troops and ammunition across the continent, a top French general told POLITICO....
Google maintains illegal monopoly over search: US judge (www.thenewdaily.com.au)
Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance (www.cnn.com)
Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance....
China announces huge stimulus package to boost lagging economy (www.semafor.com)
Exciting Dead by Daylight x Castlevania Trailer Unveiled (www.retronews.com)
Following the success of Dead Cells, Konami has approved additional Castlevania content for another title—Dead by Daylight, developed by Behaviour Interactive....
Why You Should Hate the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty. (www.eff.org)
Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500,000$ goal (secure.actblue.com)
Initiated by mastodon.social/
Federal judge rules that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees (apnews.com)
A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees and violates their civil rights....
A post from Mastodon, that's supposed to reach all the Fediverse (social.heise.de)
This post can reach not only #Mastodon & the #Fediverse, but beyond like #Bluesky. How far can it go? I have built a tool to aggregate, with what software and from which instance it is boosted (or faved). Please share far, to show where you're seeing this....